Eger turned professional in 2006, and began playing competitively on the Gateway Tour in Phoenix, Arizona.

Two years later, Eger won his second Canadian Tour tournament at the same event, the 2010 Seaforth Country Classic.

Being low on the priority list, he only played in two Nationwide Tour events in 2009, missing the cut at both the Wayne Gretzky Classic and the Mexican PGA Championship.

Eger was one of 11 contestants on Big Break Indian Wells, which began screening in hour-long weekly installments on the Golf Channel on May 16, 2011.

The winner gained an exemption into the PGA Tour's 2012 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, along with an array of monetary prizes and endorsements, totaling over $50,000.